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After admiring her work on a friend (@tacitapproval), I really wanted a piece by Mina Aoki at Fun City, NYC. She did this Lady Head for me yesterday, and I'm very happy with it; it's my first full-color tattoo, my first piece of American traditional work, and my first time at Fun City. I'm sure I'll be back for more. I'll post healed pics in a few weeks.

Got em. @Pugilist got a Sailor Jerry anchor, I got a tiger hannya from Jeff Zuck flash. Pictures to follow.

Done by Tim Pausinger @ Pearl Harbor Gift Shop in Toronto on july 2nd. Who knows, maybe people will really like this one!

I can't believe how busy the days following the wedding were. Crazy! When we get some pics back I'll post the best here (in an appropriate thread). I'm only now getting back to any semblance of a normal life. The day after the wedding we also had a crazy flood here in Toronto (of which I got caught in the dead center while trying to get my sister to the airport - all is well, though). I've managed to get away for one night in an historic B&B in Kingston, Ontario. But, and this is why this post is still relevant in this thread, I am working on my honeymoon plans and we are going to Chicago! Even better, Chad Koeplinger will be at the new Great Lakes shop during my visit and I am working out getting a tattoo from him while we are there! Woohoo!!!!

Without treading into TMI territory... I have not found this to be true. Too sore and fuzzy headed. :)

He's obviously not as badass as you are.

This is not on me--it's on my wife--but it's too good not to post here: By Paul Dobleman, Spider Murphy's Tattoo. I booked with him for next month--can't wait for my turn!

Ask your artist! What's the big rush anyways? Can't you just get it done when you're back from vacation? That only postpones the tattoo what, 3 weeks?

I might need to tell my wife this. After my Yoda tattoo, I found that her mood decreased by 20%. :D - - - Updated - - -

I guess we're both silly! :p

I think it's time I try my luck in one of these. Done by Chad Koeplinger.

Colombus? Check out Mike Moses, too. the drown town

Just came across this video on State of Grace and thought I'd share it. Some nice interviews with the artists.

when I was a kid Dave would come through philly with Mike Wilson all the time. I got to go to Luckys about 10 or 12 years ago in San Diego. Real deal tattooing in a shop full of nothing but hand painted flash. Very cool!

Forego the tree and get Jason Brooks to do a phoenix. Like...your whole back. :) In all seriousness, welcome, and I hope you find this forum useful.

Great call on Ninja Scroll. Akira is of course another obvious must-watch... Wicked City is some good messed up fun, the Patlabor movies (third one sucked though), Macross Plus miniseries... Oh, all-time fave anime series, Cowboy Bebop. Cannot be beat.

Caught Pacific Rim tonight. Analogue robot gave me a laugh, and that baseball bat of a ship was rigid as fuck... If only today's oil tankers were that tough! Fun flick though. Nothing complex, just the good simple giant robot fun that our younger selves went nuts for.

Butt all the while still wearing socks (head shake).

PS - You may now turn to mocking @Graeme for turning down a tattoo of a pin-up laying seductively on a hot dog.

A certain LST member's ass makes a cameo, but I won't say whose.

Bivetto rules! @jayessebee has numerous tattoos from him. He was working at Tantrum Tattoo in Petersburg, Virginia (my birthplace!) with George Archer.

New tattoos are clinically proven to heighten your mood and increase virility by 20 percent.

You can get icecream and/or a beer when its over.

@Graeme and I are supposed to get impulsive tattoos this afternoon (from the shop around the corner from our old place, as a way of celebrating our time there!). I think he's going to wuss out. Peer pressure him here!

I started at the ankle and have been moving upward. I guess that's not normal but I didn't know. Or maybe it is normal and I still don't know nothin'.

Yea I'm silly I decided to fill my legs before anything.

I've been out of town the last few days and am just now getting caught up here. Some fantastic tattoos, that Matt Arriola chest piece and Dobleman lady head are unfuckwithable! Keep up the good work everybody!

Congrats @Mark Bee!

Congratulations Mark!

Go back and listen to every story he has to tell you....

I'm just coming off an awesome weekend in Quebec. I'm a working musician and play in a band called Jon Knight and Soulstack. If you are into a roots/rock/soul/blues/ kinda thang, check us out on the interwebs. We just played at the Montreal Jazz Festival and Mont Tremblant International Blues Festival on Saturday and Sunday respectively to fabulous crowds that energized us and inspired us to play the majority of our asses off ;) It was a blast ! Actually just found this vid of our Montreal show on Youtube. Check it out if ya have any interest. I might be the guy playing the gold guitar ;P

Congrats @Mark Bee !!!! Do we get to see a picture of the happy couple? ;)

@Delicious, who is Dave Gibson? My dear, you met a legend.

tapped out. finishing in another week. getting my knee done by derek noble on tuesday!

This clearly won't win, judging from the awesome work already posted this month, but I'm still stoked on it. By Freehand Rob at Your Moms Favorite Tattoo Parlor, Sheridan Wyoming Also, sorry the picture is terrible, I suck with technology, and it's only a few hours old so it's a bit oozy and swollen.

Our daughter told us we couldn't get the one with the skull on it. "No skulls!", she announced. We got it anyway. Bad parents. If it really freaks her out, we may have to put it aside for a bit until she grows out of this phase. @DJDeepFried was all, "But look honey, it's smiling, it's not scary, it's a cute happy skull!" Still no dice.

The Tattoo Elite International ones are about 4x5 but on 8x10 paper (or something like that) so no matting necessary! Stick them in a frame and you're good. We just got the second set of prints yesterday.. @Pugilist sent them to a friend in NYC because they don't ship internationally and she came up for a visit and brought them along...so now we're only missing one of the Tattoo Elite International prints. Going to get this apartment painted and then have a Horitomo cat wall of our own.

Finished this today as a gift may make prints

Hotel and Flights booked! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Done by Steve Byrne at Rock of Ages Austin, Texas.

Canadian apprenticeship program ehh?, He seems Enthusiastic and well spoken. He has a long and rocky path ahead of him. I wish this young man the best of luck.

Hannya by Horimasa Tosui / Harpy by Chris Garver Pretty much healed up...

I can also be found on Instagram at LESTERSLESTER. God damn i love that app, such a nice way to look at great tattoos all day long.

Mr. Flores, you are a huge asset to this community. Every one of your posts in this thread is real solid advice and commentary on tattoos and its culture. New people, listen to this guy! You can't get this insight anywhere else on the internet!

Some of my earlier tattoos are rather simplistic and/or lack creativity. They don't follow the trends named in this thread and I actually still think they look kind of cool--but I also didn't know what was possible back then. I didn't do a ton of research, there was no internet when I got my first one 22 years ago...so I just thought I had to bring in what I wanted and get it. I know better now. I think most people just don't know better. They need LST. Or LSD. Maybe both.

i'm just hoping that impulsive tattoos will one day equate to impulsive one night stands. the scale is tipped heavy on one side, and y'all know which way.

Awww! "you're a cantaloupe"

I wasn't trying to be a smart-ass btw ... But when I think about Japanese style tattooing and the diversity of approaches - there are important guys dotted all around the globe. And even in the same country or region we see a plethora of approaches. Calle in King Carlos is pretty different in his take on it than another Scandinavian like Henning J... Then you've got guys like Pino Cafaro, an Italian based in Germany, The UK (everything from interpretive type guys to a Horiyoshi III disciple), amazing Australians and so on. The U.S scene is obviously important but I guess I'm saying isn't it a global phenomenon now, moreso than just being concerned with just the U.S or Japan?

what the hell are you people talking about? fuck i am clueless.

I have an Android phone. Y'all can go to hell.